Re: [Boost-users] Boost's direction regarding UTF8 -> UTF32 and UTF32 -> UTF8

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost's direction regarding UTF8 -> UTF32 and UTF32 -> UTF8
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-24 10:28:52

Rodrigo Madera wrote:
>     There are John Maddock's iterator adapters, those of the
>     Boost.Unicode library under development that are similar to them,
>     and there is also Boost.Locale, another library under development
>     that is a frontend to ICU, that provides function to do conversions
>     (but it works with memory buffers).
> 
> 
> I see that Maddock's adapters does the job, but does it provide the 
> reliability of ICU?

They could result in undefined behaviour when given invalid UTF input at 
the end of the string.
So not very reliable, no.

> Any comments on the review schedule for Boost.Locale and Boost.Unicode? 
> It seemed as if they compete on some points.

Boost.Unicode will be added to the review queue in September (at least 
that's the plan). When it gets reviewed will be whenever a willing 
review manager presents itself after that.

I can't speak for Locale as I'm not the author, but it seems pretty 
advanced and could be competing at around the same time if not before.